Many patients with autoimmune diseases struggle with diagnosis, costs, and inattentive care
After years of debilitating bouts of fatigue, Beth VanOrden thought she finally had an answer to her problems in 2016 when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disease. For her and millions of other Americans, that’s the most common cause of hypothyroidism, a condition in which the thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland in…